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Note: Her Obituary:
Philanthropist Enid A. Haupt dies at 99
By ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 2:19 pm PDT Thursday, October 27, 2005
NEW YORK (AP) - Enid A. Haupt, the publishing heiress whose multimillion-dollar philanthropy benefited cancer patients, museum-goers and the New York Botanical Garden, has died at the age of 99.
Haupt, the daughter of publisher Moses Annenberg and sister of the late publisher-philanthropist Walter Annenberg, died Tuesday night, the botanical garden said Thursday.
Haupt also had a publishing career of her own, as publisher and editor of Seventeen magazine, the family-owned fashion magazine for teen girls, in the 1950s and '60s. Among the Annenberg family's other holdings were The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily Racing Form and TV Guide, which was launched by her brother in 1953 and made him a billionaire.
Haupt's association with the botanical garden began in 1975 when she donated $5 million to restore the glass-domed Victoria conservatory that now bears her name and is a national landmark - and save it from destruction.
Over the years, Haupt donated more than $25 million to the garden, which is located in the Bronx, said Gregory Long, its president and CEO.
"She was a very central figure in the modern history of this organization," he said.
Her multimillion-dollar gift to the Wildlife Conservation Society helped another Bronx institution, the Bronx Zoo.
She gave $35 million to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where officials hailed her Thursday as "one of the center's most active and innovative philanthropists for more than half a century."
In the 1990s, Haupt donated $13 million worth of works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a $1.5 million Haupt endowment maintains the gardens at the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan, which houses the Met's collection of art and architecture from Medieval Europe. She also gave $1.5 million to the New York Public Library and an additional $1 million for the restoration of adjoining Bryant Park.
In Washington, she funded the fountains on the Ellipse near the White House and made a gift for the four-acre Victorian Enid A. Haupt Garden at the Smithsonian Institution. She gave 13 art works to the National Gallery of Art, including six bronze Giacometti sculptures, a Henry Moore sculpture and a Mark Rothko painting.
Born in Chicago, Haupt was the last survivor among eight children of Sadie and Moses Annenberg. Her brother Walter died in 2002.
Her husband, Ira Haupt, a Wall Street financier, died in 1963.
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